Posts Tagged ‘Yukhtman’

Chess Today – an Inbox Chess Tidbit Every Day!

I want to make sure everyone is aware of Chess Today, a daily electronic chess bulletin. GM Baburin founded it, and GM Golubev also contributes analysis many times. For a very low subscription price, people can follow current news and also get chess biographies.

An excellent daily treat in the inbox! In addition, every month, a ChessBase archive file is sent out with all the games for the month, so readers can import them easily into ChessBase or some other database.

Here’s a brief sample from today’s newsletter. GM Leonid Yurtaev passed away recently (1959 – 2011) and here is a very interesting win of his in the King’s Indian. GM Mikhail Golubev supplies the notes in the Chess Today edition but I removed them and just added a few of my own.

{Leonid Yurtaev was an exceptionally gifted tactician who defeated many
world-famous players in individual games such as Tal, Ivanchuk, Morozevich,
the very young Kasparov and Aronian. He developed many special lines in the
openings.}

{MG : I never met him, but I met his opponent this game Vladimir Tukmakov in Lenk, Switzerland 2000 and he is a very pleasant fellow full of chess anecdotes. In particular, Tukmakov recounted some howlingly funny episodes involving classic chess character Yaakov Yukhtman. }

MG: A very creative accomplishment by Yurtaev! Too often, these strong grandmasters go virtually unnoticed in the west. Chess Today always sheds light on their bestgames.

Chess U News

The mobile Quiz application Chess U continues to gain traction. We have signed up guest author Marcel Martinez to write about Middlegames for us. Attack 101 is out, Rook 101 is out, Anand 201 is outcoming within the next few days, and i expect Martinez’s Middlegames to be ready a little after that. Right now it’s only on the iPhone/iPad, but we will go forward with Facebook native app and hopefully Android also.

Chess U

Update: on June 8, 2011, Anand 201 was released.

Here’s a screenshot of a quiz during the game Anand-Karpov Las Palmas 1996 (Lesson 6, Anand 201).